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No. 450,059. PatentedApr. 7, 1891.

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EDVARD DAVIES, OF LONDON, ASSIGNOR Oh ONE-HALF TO HENRY FOARD- I-TARIRIS, OF BROOh'hl-TIOYRE lill'l'tl l'i, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOd-blSlNTEGR/ki'lhG SPENT HOPS.

sPEcIFrcA'rIorr forming part of Letters rat eht no, 450,059, dated April '7, 1891.

Application filed October 26, 1886. Serial No. 217,286. (No model.) Patented in England July 8, 1886, No. 8,936; in Germany I October 13,1886, No. 89,715; in Belgium October 28, 1886, No,76,027, and in Austria-Hungary $eptember 21, 1887, No.

20,885 and No. 45,035.

[ all whomrl t' may cancer/1,:

Be it known that I, EDWARD DAVIES, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at London, county of Middlcsex, England,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Disintegrating Spent Hops for Use in Paper and Card Board Making, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Great Britain li o. 5-,:136, bearing date July 8,1886; in Belgium, No. 75,027, bearing date October 38, 1886; in Germany, No. 30,715, bearing date October 13, 1886, and in Austria-l-Iungary, No. 20,885 and No. 45,035, bearing date September 21,1887,) of I 5 which the following is a specification.

Spent hops as received il'rom breweries after use in brewing and before being treated by this invention are first cleaned by washing to get rid of as much of the wort and dirt as adheres tothem, and then -partially dried, when they are ready to be treated by this apparatus to separate the seeds from the petals and to cut up the latter. These operations are effected by the arrangement of ap- 2 5 paratus illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in sec tion; Figs. 2 and 3, end views of same; Fig. 4, an end view of part embodied in Fig. 1 through line Y Z.

A is a frame, which may be made of metal tubes connected by T-pZ-eces 13, into which the lengths of tubing screw. The frame A has attached to it suitable saddle-pieces C to support a cylinder D, which may be a fixture, but is preferred to slowly revolve. This cylinder is intended to act as a sieve for sifting out the seeds from the petals, and may. be constructed of a perforated metal tube car ried between cast-iron cap ends E, the perforations being a suitable size for the seeds only to pass through; Attached to the frameA is a hopper'F, communicating with the interior of cylinder at one end into this hopper. The hops are fed and rest upon a grating, through which they are gradually drawn by revolving-feeding-blades, and fall into cylinder D.

These blades are attached to a cross-spindle G, passing through hopper and under gratin 5c and turned by pulleys and band.

The hops are propelled through the cylinder 1) by means of vanes or boaters II, attached to a revolving shaft I, passing through cylinder longitudinally. These vanes sepa rate and stir up the hop-petals, and by theinclinc an gle at which they (the "anes) are set push them through the cylinder while stirring them up, and so assist the sitting out of the seeds. On passing through the cylinder 1) the petals fall down a chute J into a tearingup chamber K. This may consist of a metal tube suitably fixed- In the bottom of this chan'iber K are secui'ed a number of longitudinal cutters or edges L. Passing through the chamber is a shaft M, arranged to re- 6 b volvc, having attached anumberof cutters or tearers N. These may consist of steel blades attached to" a shortarm screwed into shaft -Ill.- tlie-edges of the cutters N are set to come ClOSGrtO the edges otthe cutters L. The latter are set in a curve corresponding to the travel of the edges of the revolving cutters N. The blades of these cutters are also set at an incline to propel the material through the chamber as well as tear it up against the bottom fixed cutters. The torn-u p hop-petals may then pass down a chute 0, from whence the material is collected and is ready to be treated in the usual way forthe manufacture of pulp. Any suitable means may be em- So ployed to collect the sifted-out seeds.

The machine is driven from the pulley It. The cylinder D is slowly rotated from a small pulley Q: on shaft M by strap passing round one of the ends 16,-arranged for this purpose, and the upper shaft 1* is revolved from lower shaft M by band aird pulleys R S. The ends of the cylinder 1) and chamber K are closed. by suitable lids, which for convenience of removal are made in halves. 9o

Il'aving fully described my invention, what Idesi'ro togelairn, and secure by Letters fl1atout, is

.1. An apparatus for the treatment of spent hops, consisting of the frame A, supports 0, cylindrical sitter ID, horizontally held and having a feeding device at one end and an. exit at the other end, and an internal revolving shaft], fitted with vanes or boaters II, spirally set to work the petals through the 10v spii'aib sci, chute J, chamber K, fitted \vit'h hmgiimiinai bottomfixud cuiiurs L, internal ruvolvingslml't M, iiiicii wit-h leavers N,:1mi uxit 0, as described and set fm-Lh.

EDXARJ) DAVIES. Witnesses:

ARTHUR R. SKERTEN, .17 (Museum/$071, Street, London, 1*]. (1.

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